Only hundreds of people a year expected to use assisted dying law, says campaigner – UK politics live

Kim Leadbeater says initial numbers should be low but fellow campaigner Charlie Falconer says they will increase

Leadbeater introduces the next speaker, Nat Dye, who has terminal cancer. She says she thinks his views are the most important for people to hear at this press conference.

He says he has known “positive” experiences of death. His fiance and his mother both had relatively peaceful deaths. He says palliative care can work for some people.

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